Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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